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Great job. I like to think that my response to the consultation helped in some small way.

I won’t touch it without a digger 🤣

There's really not a lot to go wrong with these little loaders.

I demo'd both, and prefered the Sherpa. Easier controls (although you'd just need a couple of longer levers on the Quad). It handled the same load (60kg forks and 9 bags of 20kg postmix) much better than the Quad, which was very tippy like that and also very twitchy on the steering levers, The Sherpa was on skinny tyres, yet felt more stable than the Quad on wide wheels. I demo'd the yellow Sherpa, which has a slightly bigger pump and better drive motors. It easily spun all four (slightly flat) wheels offroad whilst pushing into a pile of crushed concrete, without really loading the engine down! That was the decider for me. Everything was effortless with the Sherpa, the Quad would do it but was harder work to operate and more tippy. Pricewise the yellow Sherpa is around 12k, the red one 11k. The basic petrol Quad was 13k, maybe 13.5. I went into this without any intention whatsoever of buying on price, which is why I demoed both. The Quad is a more modern design, and looks well built. The hitch is better- the same design as a Multione or Avant. Both have auto levelling. The Sherpa by comparison is a much more dated design, but plenty of steel where it counts. I decided I'd have to live with 760 width rather than 740.

I have a madcap plan in my head for a loader/excavator mounted grinder, powered by an auxillary Loncin 30hp petrol engine. Should give a relatively cheap and capable grinder that you can run on a loader and then of course you can also remove the grindings with the grab bucket. Extra ££

Noticeable increase in power on my MS462. There's a video somewhere comparing with and without.

Actually a good bit of kit!

And it's still not as good as a Loncin engine!

I feel for you mate. House prices need to crash. The error is yours then I’m afraid if you didn’t enquire as to the feasibility of a drop kerb at the searches stage

Yeah, but wasn’t that reflected in the price you paid for the house? sue your surveyor.

It wants to be for more than a CS100!!

Could well be. That’s a cheap model, you can see by the casing. ive not found any of my Milwaukee top end stuff shit, and at £250 bare for the angle grinder I just bought I’d expect quality. if you search, you can find any tool sold at a big store considerably cheaper from an online power tool specialist, so no reason to buy from screwfix at all.

Test the water as I did with a makita to Milwaukee battery adaptor 👍🏻 ive almost entirely switched over, and hand on heart, Milwaukee is better in every way. I always buy the top of the range so it’s a like for like comparison. I did buy a Makita rebar tying gun the other day though, as Milwaukee don’t make one.

The Chinese chippers are all the same drum unit and engine. Go for the style that suits you best- either narrow and long for tight gateways, or wider with engine above drum and towable. Try to get one with a swivel spout, although you can add it later

Yes, the chipper itself is pretty solid. But I stand by my assertion regarding engines 😉 If you jammed yours on thin stuff, check the anvil gaps. I closed mine down to maybe 3/4mm, and it made a big difference.

You'll be fine with any 15hp drum unit, going to a drum unit with a wide infeed gets rid of the bottleneck of having to sned everything off a branch and feed them in one at a time- you can stuff bundles of brash into them. The increase in HP is useful too. 13/15/18hp is all much of a muchness- the Chinese engines that claim 15HP are probably not really, as they are copies of a 13hp Honda engine. It's not until you get up into the twin cylinder (much more expensive) variants that you get a useful increase in power. The nature of a wee chipper tends to be that it's intermittent, hand fed work, so the heavy drum unit and correct setting on the blade/anvil gap is all you need to keep things moving well enough. And sharp blades, of course- but that goes without saying for any chipper. Chinese if you're on a budget will take some abuse, but you're on your own with maintenance and backup. Although not much to go wrong with them. Greenmech will hold a premium, it's whether you can stretch to that much at this stage in your business. Or whether you put the money into another tool. I've had no problems with my Chinese chipper and see no reason why I would- they're simple things. I'd avoid the Rock machinery one- it's simply a Chinese unit with a Briggs engine. Loncin copies of Honda engines are far superior to any Briggs. Just this morning I've cleaned out the fuel system on a customers Rock log splitter. You should have seen the state of the rust inside the tank- and from a 'premium' brand. Briggs are shit.

Had two that lasted barely a year each. The Milwaukee equivalent is cheaper and almost as powerful as the Makita 3/4”. sorry to piss on your chips, I used to be makita through and through.

Don’t let the website pictures of European looking men in overalls (gtm, Jansen etc) fool you. It’s the same Chinese drum unit and chassis available on alibaba for peanuts, just with a Honda engine. All those sites saying ‘assembled in Europe’ are basically taking it out the crate and bolting the wheels on, that’s all. If you want to spend stupid money on a Chinese unit, you could buy this! Interestingly, they are claiming it’s ALL european. Have they ripped off the Chinese rip off? 🤣🤣 Foxwood C90 PRO wood chipper (GX390) (up to 90mm diameter) – FR Jones & Son WWW.FRJONESANDSON.CO.UK have a look through the wee chipper thread, only recently I posted the link for a turntable chute you can add to them. @WiltshireMike- you need 13hp, the 6hp ones will be a waste of time even for domestic. If you can’t justify a cs100 as you’re just domestic, the Chinese ones will do you fine. May want a little fettling, but will do the job just as good once sorted. Usually blade/anvil gap is miles too large. I’m constantly amazed what mine will swallow.

Well I had a look to day (and thanks to Kev for the advice on the phone). Goreous mature oak, and he was wanting to put the cabin and shed right under it. He readily agree that in this case it couldn't be on concrete, and is seeking a spec from the log cabin company for low disturbance base. The shed can go on sleepers. Looks like I will be picking up a bit of regular type groundworks for other works there anyhow, so not a wasted trip at all.

Sad. Sounds like he ****************ed up big time.

The neighbour at my yard has a system, he also uses it to heat his pool.

One of the Chinese drum chippers will do all you need. Loncin engines are better than Briggs. Or green mech if you want the backup. Anything with a low outlet is a dated design and just makes more work than it saves.

And full of oil. That’s the bit I always forget with an electric chainsaw!

Surely the client would be the one liable for any heave, as they are the ones instructing/paying you to remove their tree? Sounds like the only winners would be lawyers if it ever got that far.

Paging @Justme